Re: KAptGet - Database questions
Previously loply wrote:
> Im writing a KDE frontend for apt-get/dpkg (hybrid functionality). This will
> ofcourse, be another one of those system(); intsense jobs...
In that case you're doing it wrong, just use libapt-pkg directly.
> Im going to need to display dependencies on screen when the user selects a
> non-installed package from an extremely large list of packagenames. I know
> that the dependencies arent stored in /var/lib/dpkg/available, so I will have
> to rummage through the various *_Packages files in /var/lib/apt/list,
> correct?
No, libapt-pkg will parse all that for you and give you proper data
structures.
Wichert.
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